"A Space to Float with Someone": Recovering Play as a Field of Repair in Work with Parents of Late-Adopted Children

Autor/in	Desmarais, Sarah
Titel	"A Space to Float with Someone": Recovering Play as a Field of Repair in Work with Parents of Late-Adopted Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 32 (2006) 3, S.349-364 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0075-417X
Schlagwörter	Play; Adoption; Inhibition; Qualitative Research; Parent Child Relationship; Parenting Styles; Therapy; Conflict; Child Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Hemmung; Qualitative Forschung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Therapie; Konflikt
Abstract	Research has increasingly focused on play as a social rather than a solitary domain. Play is a stage on which conflicts and wishes may be expressed to a responsive and containing other. As a group, late-adopted latency children show high levels of inhibition, regression and catastrophe in play, and adoptive parents may find this hard to engage with. The current study undertook a qualitative analysis of transcripts from groups run in the development of an adoption-specific parenting programme that emphasises play as a form of communication. Results indicate that adoptive parents habitually coped with play using counterproductive strategies that were predominantly avoidant or controlling; the programme facilitated some suspension of these defences. These findings are discussed with reference to children in therapy and individual work with their parents, who may be enabled better to support play through exploring their own conflicts and assumptions. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10